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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 through 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will assist Sharpe in rescuing the women?
(a) An arillery company.
(b) A calvary battalion.
(c) Two sqauds of infantry.
(d) Spanish partisans.

2. What kind of evidence is around the town?
(a) Of destruction of many buildings.
(b) Evidence of starvation and lack of water.
(c) Evidence of theft of British army material.
(d) Evidence of murder, torture and mass rape.

3. What does Sharpe think of the situation as he watches the action?
(a) They will win eventually.
(b) It is a draw.
(c) It is desperate.
(d) If is all right.

4. What does Dubreton's wife say to her husband?
(a) Tells him she loves him.
(b) Tells him she is being raped.
(c) Quotes poetry.
(d) Nothing she is not allowed to speak.

5. What does Farthingdale decide to do at the war council?
(a) Have Sharpe arrested.
(b) Dismiss it as unnecessary.
(c) Demand fortify the convent and castle.
(d) Put Sharpe in command.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sharpe and Harper look at when surveying the convent?

2. What does Sharpe do with the prisoners from the convent?

3. Where has Sharpe seen Lady Farthingdale before?

4. What is being done to a woman with a hot iron?

5. From where does the first attack of the French fall back?

(see the answer key)

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